X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=cCAuv +WWNQF5Ks5fhnqWB9jHuxWIgRC4iwZvmCnTVYZBH2mIT3YPM7vmebSWN4xsLHjqA Ruqe76UtnlWDK+0yw+YsFeG3RcwtK0o+ZNWhO0hzOPjwJt7KsPJQ5M1aiKABfqSk Mw09krKxnjV0aFzoLt7P2qu3r02iOeQzq3WzrI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=SvyFMrssdNv 2hWw/AAnk8tDolKc=; b=ydfhW/IxMVSlhsJosiKEBIaxqVgYkBpyBwjdXA6U2PV Y2YftsIlbZY4pjWjCaRmwt6kNjCtJCxq29bdAB+bYwW6GTK4bTNY+OgYW46CZLHy yhk/kyz7O/QmDbJvdSWeh/E7wdR9kLsOXF6kBKv7VUafZRkrJll29F99f84maABw = Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=dash, intact, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx011.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: How to start Cygwin from outside Cygwin and pass a command to execute? References: <4df6f54b-5898-76f9-ebf6-1a2e40c65aa5 AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:18:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4df6f54b-5898-76f9-ebf6-1a2e40c65aa5@yahoo.co.uk> (Ben via cygwin's message of "Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:31:31 +0100") Message-ID: <87mv0rqjya.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT Ben via cygwin writes: > Assume I want to call from Windows my CgyWin and pass a command to execute. That depends a bit on what kind of environment that command expects, but it could be as easy as invoking it with the full path. If it needs a fully set up an environment you need to start a shell (dash or maybe bash), perhaps in login mode to source your profile. Lastly if it needs a tty you'll want to start all that from mintty. As others have commented, quoting all these commands correctly so they are intact at the various stages of expansion can be quite an exercise to get right, so it will be easier if you can wrap these things into a script that doesn't need any arguments (or at least none that would need quoting). Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple